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© Estate of Dorothy Cole Ruddick
Ruddick enrolled at Black Mountain College in fall 1945, attending through spring 1947. She studied with both Josef Albers and Ilya Bolotowsky. Ruddick created nonfunctional, semiabstract compositions using silk, cotton, and wool thread stitched onto a linen background. Drawing on a sophisticated vocabulary of stitches, she created complex designs in which thread was used to create texture, as a medium for drawing, and as a foundation for modeled threedimensional forms. Visual illusion, or the “swindle,” a theme in Albers’s design class, is demonstrated in the grid on this work in which the illusion of shadow and depth is created on the two-dimensional surface. Her later work referenced Ancient Greek draped female figures, interpreting them in two- and threedimensional form
Exhibition Title: Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction to the Collection
Label Date: 2021
Type: Catalogue Entry
Written by: Mary Emma Harris
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